James Horner
- Known for
- Sound
- Born
- August 14, 1953
- Died
- June 22, 2015 (aged 61)
- Birthplace
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Biography
James Roy Horner (August 14, 1953–June 22, 2015) was an American film composer and conductor. He worked on more than 160 film and television productions between 1978 and 2015. He was known for the integration of choral and electronic elements alongside traditional orchestrations and for his use of motifs associated with Celtic music. Horner won two Academy Awards for his musical composition to James Cameron's Titanic (1997), which became the best-selling orchestral film soundtrack of all time. He also wrote the score for the highest-grossing film of all time, Cameron's Avatar (2009). Horner's other Oscar-nominated scores were for Aliens (1986), An American Tail (1986), Field of Dreams (1989), Apollo 13 (1995), Braveheart (1995), A Beautiful Mind (2001), and House of Sand and Fog (2003). Horner's other notable scores include Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Willow (1988), The Land Before Time (1988), Glory (1989), The Rocketeer (1991), Legends of the Fall (1994), Jumanji (1995), Casper (1995), Balto (1995), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Deep Impact (1998), The Perfect Storm (2000), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Troy (2004), The New World (2005), The Legend of Zorro (2005), Apocalypto (2006), The Karate Kid (2010), and The Amazing Spider-Man (2012). Horner collaborated on multiple projects with directors including James Cameron, Don Bluth, Ron Howard, Joe Johnston, Edward Zwick, Walter Hill, Mel Gibson, Vadim Perelman, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Nicholas Meyer, Wolfgang Petersen, Martin Campbell, Phil Nibbelink, and Simon Wells; producers including Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, David Kirschner, Brian Grazer, Jon Landau, and Lawrence Gordon; and songwriters including Will Jennings, Barry Mann, and Cynthia Weil. Adding to his two Academy Awards wins, Horner also won six Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes, and was nominated for three BAFTA Awards. Horner, who was an avid pilot, was killed in a single-fatality crash while flying his Short Tucano turboprop aircraft. He was 61 years old. The scores for his final three films, Southpaw (2015), The 33 (2015), and The Magnificent Seven (2016), were all completed and released posthumously. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Horner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
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Movie · Music
Willow: Behind the Magic
Movie · Music
Willow
TV · Music · 8 eps
Avatar Flight of Passage
Movie · Music
The Magnificent Seven
Movie · Original Music Composer
Wolf Totem
Movie · Original Music Composer
Southpaw
Movie · Original Music Composer
The 33
Movie · Original Music Composer
Living in the Age of Airplanes
Movie · Music
The Amazing Spider-Man
Movie · Original Music Composer
Reflections on Titanic
Movie · Original Music Composer
Outlaws - For Greater Glory
Movie · Original Music Composer
Black Gold
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Karate Kid
Movie · Original Music Composer
Avatar
Movie · Original Music Composer, Songs
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Life Before Her Eyes
Movie · Original Music Composer
Apocalypto
Movie · Original Music Composer
All the King's Men
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Legend of Zorro
Movie · Original Music Composer
The New World
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Flightplan
Movie · Original Music Composer, Orchestrator, Conductor
The Chumscrubber
Movie · Original Music Composer
Troy
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
The Forgotten
Movie · Original Music Composer
Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
Movie · Original Music Composer
House of Sand and Fog
Movie · Original Music Composer
Superior Firepower: Making 'Aliens'
Movie · Music
Beyond Borders
Movie · Original Music Composer
Radio
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Missing
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
Movie · Music
The Four Feathers
Movie · Original Music Composer
Windtalkers
Movie · Original Music Composer
A Beautiful Mind
Movie · Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
Enemy at the Gates
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Iris
Movie · Original Music Composer
Unmasking Zorro
Movie · Music
Raptor
Movie · Music
The Perfect Storm
Movie · Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Movie · Original Music Composer
Freedom Song
Movie · Original Music Composer
Maybe It's Better not to Win - Scoring Searching for Bobby Fischer
Movie · Music
Bicentennial Man
Movie · Original Music Composer
Michelle Kwan Skates to Disney's Greatest Hits
Movie · Music
Deep Impact
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
The Mask of Zorro
Movie · Original Music Composer
Mighty Joe Young
Movie · Original Music Composer
Titanic
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Devil's Own
Movie · Original Music Composer
Ransom
Movie · Original Music Composer
Courage Under Fire
Movie · Original Music Composer
To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Spitfire Grill
Movie · Original Music Composer
Braveheart
Movie · Original Music Composer, Orchestrator, Musician
Apollo 13
Movie · Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
Jade
Movie · Original Music Composer
Casper
Movie · Original Music Composer
Jumanji
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Balto
Movie · Original Music Composer, Songs
Legends of the Fall
Movie · Original Music Composer
Clear and Present Danger
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
The Pagemaster
Movie · Original Music Composer
Swing Kids
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Man Without a Face
Movie · Original Music Composer
Once Upon a Forest
Movie · Original Music Composer
Jack the Bear
Movie · Original Music Composer
A Far Off Place
Movie · Original Music Composer
House of Cards
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Pelican Brief
Movie · Original Music Composer
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Movie · Original Music Composer
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
Movie · Original Music Composer, Songs
Bopha!
Movie · Original Music Composer
Sneakers
Movie · Original Music Composer
Thunderheart
Movie · Original Music Composer
Patriot Games
Movie · Original Music Composer
Unlawful Entry
Movie · Original Music Composer
Fish Police
TV · Original Music Composer · 6 eps
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
Movie · Original Music Composer, Songs
The Rocketeer
Movie · Original Music Composer
Once Around
Movie · Original Music Composer
Class Action
Movie · Original Music Composer
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
Movie · Original Music Composer
Another 48 Hrs.
Movie · Original Music Composer
I Love You to Death
Movie · Original Music Composer
Extreme Close-Up
Movie · Original Music Composer
Field of Dreams
Movie · Original Music Composer
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Movie · Original Music Composer
Tummy Trouble
Movie · Original Music Composer
Glory
Movie · Original Music Composer
In Country
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Dad
Movie · Original Music Composer
Tales from the Crypt
TV · Music · 1 ep
Willow
Movie · Original Music Composer
Cocoon: The Return
Movie · Original Music Composer
Red Heat
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Land Before Time
Movie · Original Music Composer
Vibes
Movie · Original Music Composer
Andy Colby’s Incredibly Awesome Adventure
Movie · Original Music Composer
*batteries not included
Movie · Original Music Composer
Project X
Movie · Original Music Composer
P.K. and the Kid
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Name of the Rose
Movie · Original Music Composer
Aliens
Movie · Original Music Composer
An American Tail
Movie · Original Music Composer, Songs
Off Beat
Movie · Original Music Composer
Captain EO
Movie · Original Music Composer
Where the River Runs Black
Movie · Original Music Composer
Ninja Terminator
Movie · Music
Cocoon
Movie · Original Music Composer
Commando
Movie · Original Music Composer, Music Producer, Conductor
Barbarian Queen
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Journey of Natty Gann
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Movie · Music
Heaven Help Us
Movie · Original Music Composer
Surviving
Movie · Original Music Composer
Volunteers
Movie · Original Music Composer
Amazing Stories
TV · Music · 1 ep
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Stone Boy
Movie · Original Music Composer
Krull
Movie · Original Music Composer
Gorky Park
Movie · Original Music Composer
Space Raiders
Movie · Original Music Composer
Uncommon Valor
Movie · Original Music Composer
Testament
Movie · Original Music Composer
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Movie · Original Music Composer
Between Friends
Movie · Original Music Composer
Brainstorm
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Dresser
Movie · Original Music Composer
Journey to Krull
Movie · Music
48 Hrs.
Movie · Original Music Composer
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Movie · Original Music Composer
A Piano for Mrs. Cimino
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Sorceress
Movie · Music
Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
Movie · Original Music Composer
Wolfen
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Deadly Blessing
Movie · Original Music Composer
Angel Dusted
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Hand
Movie · Original Music Composer
A Few Days at Weasel Creek
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
Movie · Original Music Composer
Humanoids from the Deep
Movie · Original Music Composer
Battle Beyond the Stars
Movie · Original Music Composer
Up from the Depths
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Lady in Red
Movie · Original Music Composer